<TITLE>03. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 Now, I went... Thinking of that, I got the dictionary. And I thought, "That's kind of an unusual word. We don't use it too much." And I thought, "Maybe, Lord, because You placed that upon my heart, there may be something there that I should look up." And Webster's dictionary says a "paradox" "is something incredible but true": something that's incredible, but yet it's true. Doesn't seem like it could be true at all; but it is true. That's a paradox.

L-12 I begin to think then how many paradoxes that we could point out. And if we would stop this afternoon, it would amaze you to see how many things that scientifically it could not be, but yet it is. This world hanging in space is a paradox. We're told that it's turning around, making its complete circle every twenty-four hours, and it's approximately twenty-five thousand miles around the world. And you know, you can... There's nothing in the world that'll move that perfect like that world does. And the eclipse of the moon from the great solar system... How are they standing in the air, revolving so perfectly, and around the equator, till you can time it for twenty or thirty years, and it'll not miss a second.

L-13 I have a watch here, and it was give to me by some good friends over when I was in Switzerland, just a common Swiss watch... A little watch probably cost about a hundred and fifty dollars, or something. But it's a good one to me. And it's called the Vulcain Cricket, and it's one of the best timepieces I ever wore. Yet, I can set that and time it; within two or three months it's either fast or slow. And there's nothing that we have that'll keep anything perfect.
But God's time is perfect. It just doesn't miss a tick. How is this great celestial ball hanging in the air not fastened onto anything, turning itself around and around this a way every twenty-four hours, and every twelve months completely around, from the sun coming back, summer, winter, autumn, spring: perfect, just exactly. And it's been doing that for thousands of years. There's not a man on earth that can explain that.

L-14 Which is up and down? Is the North Pole on top, or is the South Pole on top? We don't know, because we're in space. And you throw a ball in the air and can watch it. It will not make two revolutions in the same place. It's falling, going up, and it's making its own wind and--just as the earth, gravitation holding it. But it won't turn twice in the same spot, either going up or coming down. But yet, this great ball has turned thousands times thousands of years, not missed a bit. That's a paradox.

L-15 It's a paradox when you watch that moon. Look at the tides out on the coast here, how those angry waves with about four-fifths of the earth, almost, in water... Go to the seashore and watch that tide as those angry big waves breaking way out there, half a mile out in the ocean or more, beating against that ocean bank. Why doesn't it just come on over? There's just one thing keeping it from doing so. That's the moon. That moon's God's watchdog. He watches over that seashore because God has set its boundaries, and it cannot pass that.
But when that moon begins to turn around to look at Father, notice that tide will slip out, or slip in. Then when he turns back, it takes its place again. It--it has to, because it's God's watchdog.


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